Permission Required: You must approve this permission in app setting: Storage

This message appears when starting the game and when i click on settings and look to give permission their is no permission asked. Seems to me that at Startup it keeps asking for WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission even though when i have not asked for it in Extra Permissions. When i look in the AndroidManifest file i see WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission requested in user-permission and meta-data GameActivity.StartupPermission. Its strange as few weeks back when i was quick launching as well as packaging it was working perfectly fine. These request message was not prompted. But now i can find a solution to this. Have already tried for over 2 weeks. Any of you know what’s the problem the solution to this please help.
Also my game just saves things like high score in the Game save blueprint which uses internal storage and should not have triggered any storage requests.

Try enabling Use ExternalFilesDir in Android Project Settings

Yes i have enabled Use ExternalFilesDir. But still i am getting that permission required message. Also it seems like the Package game data inside .apk value is getting overridden. I have enabled it in project settings but in the android manifest file i see its value false.